San Ramon honors one of its own for Garrido capture

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UC Berkeley police specialist Lisa Campbell was honored by the city of San Ramon on Monday night for helping capture kidnap-rape suspect Phillip Craig Garrido.

Campbell, 40, who lives in San Ramon, and UC Berkeley Police Officer Allison “Ally” Jacobs are widely credited for setting the wheels in motion that led to the arrest of Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido.

Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, and local dignitaries honored Campbell at San Ramon City Hall. They presented Campbell with a Congressional Record Statement that was added to the record of the U.S. House of Representatives, in which McNerney hailed both Campbell and Jacobs for their efforts to “make our community safer and save an innocent mother and her two young children from horrific circumstances.”

“It was a collaboration of great police work, it was just three people, one from each — Ally, from Ally to parole — coming together to accomplish something that we had no idea would be this monumental,” Campbell told those in attendance, reports CBS5.

Campbell, manager of UC Berkeley police’s special events unit, realized that something was amiss when Phillip Garrido showed up on campus Aug. 24 with two young girls, who authorities now believe he fathered by his alleged kidnap victim, Jaycee Dugard.

Garrido came to Campbell’s office to ask about holding a campus event related to a group called “God’s Desire.” He said the event would be “big” and that the government was involved, Campbell recalled.

Garrido’s behavior was erratic, she thought, and the girls seemed “sullen and submissive.” Campbell made an appointment for Garrido to come back the next day, on Aug. 25, at which time Jacobs sat in on the meeting. Jacobs called Garrido’s parole officer that day.